Campus projects end Friday: Campus Road, Hoy Road (including the Dwyer Dam Bridge), the parking garage and B lot are all scheduled to reopen by Friday, Aug. 18.
Fall opening traffic and parking: To accommodate the expected fall opening traffic as some 3,000 new students and their parents arrive at Cornell Friday, the following traffic and parking arrangements are being put into place:
United Way "Day of Caring": Staff and faculty are being asked to hold Wednesday, Sept. 13, open for the fourth annual Day of Caring, a day for Cornell employees to volunteer at area United Way agencies from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A light breakfast and lunch will be provided. Only the first 100 volunteers can be accepted. Contact dayofcaring@cornell.edu. More information will appear in next week's Cornell Chronicle.
Ice cream Mann: To celebrate the unofficial opening of its new addition, the Albert R. Mann Library is hosting an ice cream social and open house Aug. 23, from 2 to 4 p.m. There will be tours of the new facility, the bluegrass sounds of Thrill Dogs and sample servings of Mango Mann, a sorbet specially created by Cornell Dairy. The guest hosts will be Susan Henry, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Science, and Charles McClintock, associate dean of the College of Human Ecology. The library will host an official opening ceremony this fall.
Shoemobile: The Department of Environmental Health and Safety has announced that Lehigh Safety Shoe will be on campus with its shoemobile Friday, Aug. 18. The shoemobile, which provides a large selection of safety shoes, will be at the Environmental Health and Safety Building, 201 Palm Road (east of the Orchards off Route 366), from 7:30 to 11 a.m. and from noon to 3 p.m. Employees eligible to receive department reimbursement for safety shoes should use their procurement card when purchasing shoes. Employees using a procurement card will avoid making any out-of-pocket payments for the amount being paid by the department. Employees going to the shoemobile can do so on work time with supervisory approval. Maximum monetary amount allowed by the department should be kept in mind; purchase prices above departmental allowances can be paid by the employee with cash, personal credit card or check. Questions can be referred to Environmental Health and Safety at 255-8200.
Calendar awarded: A calendar produced for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art has been awarded first prize in the prestigious American Association of Museums Design Competition this year. The calendar, titled "Margaret Bourke-White: Images of the 20th Century," features a selection of photographs by Bourke-White that are in the museum's collection. The photo-journalist, who earned a bachelor's degree at Cornell in 1927, won international fame for the images she took for Life magazine during the thirties, forties and fifties. The Johnson Museum calendar includes never- before published photographs that Bourke-White took while she was a student at Cornell in the 1920s. The calendar was among the first of the museum's publications to rely entirely on its new library of digitized images and was featured in the July/August 2000 issue of Museum News along with other prize-winning entries. The calendar was designed by Gilbert Design Associates of Providence, R.I., with an introductory text by Johnson Museum chief curator Nancy E. Green. The project was funded by a gift from Jody and Peter Robbins, Class of 1974.
Web site picked: The web site "The Fantastic in Art and Fiction" http://rmc2.library.cornell.edu/fantastic/ was a Yahoo! Pick of the Week in June. The web site was authored by John Anzalone, professor of French at Skidmore College, while a he was a visiting scholar in the Cornell Library. The site was designed and compiled by Jennifer Conklin, then a web designer in the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC) and now curator of visual and electronic resources in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. The site was produced by CIDC and includes some 300 images from Rare and Manuscript Collections.
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